Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Ephrata population, 2020 to 2024

Ephrata lost 111 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -34. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 110th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Ephrata is 1.6 times that size.

Ephrata covers 3.42 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 4,011 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Ephrata is close to the typical town.

What county Ephrata is in

All of Ephrata's residents live in Lancaster County, which had 563,293 residents in 2024. Ephrata holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ephrata

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ephrata by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 17522. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ephrata is

The Census internal point of Ephrata is at 40.180900, -76.180200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 37.6 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lancaster, PA (58,441 people), 11.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Allentown, PA, 46.7 miles away.

Daylight in Ephrata

At 40.18° N, Ephrata gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ephrata

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Akron, 2.0 miles away, with 4,123 people.